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Comment by KeleturShask

Comment by KeleturShask

Of tier 75's options, this may be the best form of self-utility for Enhancement and Elemental. Although it requires damage to be dealt, AG heals oneself for significantly more than HTT (as Enh and Ele) does per use, and it has a shorter cooldown.

For pure PvE use, AG should also come out on top for the DPS specs. Ele and Enh do not have the specialization bonuses that Resto has to boost HTT, and AG scales directly with one's damage (or healing). Since it was changed to heal three targets rather than just one and is just as much of a smart heal as the weaker HTT, AG should be the best choice here.

(Out of the three choices in the tier, Ancestral Guidance is the only one well-balanced for all three specs in PvE. Though while it is also the best self-utility for Enhancement and Elemental in its tier, AG accomplishes its true potential only by healing three individuals. The talent previously healed only one target and was therefore weak compared to other classes' self-defense talents, so it was buffed to heal three instead. But that just served to give AG a pro-Restoration slant, giving an incentive to group-heal, rather than amplifying AG's potential self-utility.)

Comment by Taraezor

And zero for Global Cooldown too, meaning straight onto the next spell. This makes it perfect for a two step macro but not at the beginning of a fight when noone needs healing. I did this for my Enhancement Shaman:

and placed it on my main hot bar. When I press the key (with no "shift" or "Alt" etc. i.e. unmodified) I get my Healing Stream Totem. That triggers a GCD by the way. If I press the same key with a modifier such as "Alt" then I get AG following by a HST straight away. On screen they appear simultaneous. Followed then by a GCD.

Note that each GCD triggered for healing means less damage done by you so an Enhancement Shaman should only ever be doing this kind of thing when a healer is struggling or when you have permission to "off heal" in a raid.

I use this one when soloing "old content" in tight situations and I expect it will be used a lot while Mists of Pandaria is new and healers are levelling up.

Comment by binkenstein

Clarification on the mechanics for this talent.

For each damage hit you inflict, Ancestral Guidance will heal 3 nearby players (including yourself) for 40% of the damage of that hit, each. In other words, assuming there are three targets to heal, the total healing is 120% of the damage inflicted.

This will function for each hit of Chain Lightning (an excellent way to self heal while killing multiple mobs) and every hit of Earthquake.

Comment by perculia

Ghostcrawler on 5.2 changes:

- We are separating out Ancestral Guidance into a damage conversion number and a healing conversion number in order to allow for better tuning and to ultimately make the talent more attractive to Resto. I am guessing at the numbers right now, but imagine it says something like: "When you deal direct damage, 40% is copied as healing. When you deal direct healing, 60% is copied as healing."